Anne Steuerwald-Landmann

Anna Steuerwald Landmann was actively engaged in promoting gender equality and women’s rights and well-known for being an outspoken opponent of the Nazis, most notably of Julius Streicher as early as 1923. After the Nazis came to power she fled to Chile with her family where she lived under difficult circumstances until the end of the war when she returned to Germany (Nuremberg). She resumed her outstanding work and activities, and has also contributed greatly to studies of German Literature in Exile. Eventually her engagem ent was publicly recognized by naming a street in Nuremberg after her, the Anna Steuerwald-Landmann-Straße .